You searched for Morality In Media - Mike South https://mikesouth.com/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:59:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 You searched for Morality In Media - Mike South https://mikesouth.com/ 32 32 1788040 Laila Mickelwait goes after Pornhub https://mikesouth.com/legal-2/laila-mickelwait-goes-after-pornhub-77072/ https://mikesouth.com/legal-2/laila-mickelwait-goes-after-pornhub-77072/#comments Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:33:48 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=77072 Laila Mickelwait goes after Pornhub seeking justice It’s difficult to not be a conspiracy theorist today. The world continues to embrace the ever increasing global madness. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, young Hamlet is haunted by the ghost of murdered father, King Hamlet. The haunting slowly drove the young prince to insanity and his peace only came […]

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Is Master Card and the Peanut gallery anti sex worker groups, just being idiosyncratic, Making porn productions more difficult ? https://mikesouth.com/porn-news/is-master-card-just-being-idiosyncratic-making-porn-production-difficult-70741/ https://mikesouth.com/porn-news/is-master-card-just-being-idiosyncratic-making-porn-production-difficult-70741/#respond Mon, 25 Oct 2021 03:31:49 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=70741 Arguably the boogie man mantra these days, “Trafficking”, ” Prostitution”, ” Sex workers” and a distant last “Porn” are certainly all vastly different topics, summing and lumping all these terms together in one category, as the same type of sex work or activity, is feeding the fanatical so-called nonprofits, anti-sex worker groups. It is like […]

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Bollocks! British cities are banning cussing and pro-liberty groups are fighting back https://mikesouth.com/legal/bollocks-british-cities-are-banning-cussing-and-pro-liberty-groups-are-fighting-back-49475/ https://mikesouth.com/legal/bollocks-british-cities-are-banning-cussing-and-pro-liberty-groups-are-fighting-back-49475/#respond Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:44:03 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=49475 Between August 2017 and January 2019, 15 British councils banned swearing or foul language.   No cussing please, we’re British! I’ve always been a fan of the much-maligned 1993 film Demolition Man. For those who have never seen it, it’s essentially the action-comedy version of 2002’s Minority Report, and is set in a future America […]

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Bananas and Burned Bridges: The Tragic Decline and Fall of Porn Star Melissa Hill, Part One https://mikesouth.com/porn-stars/bananas-and-burned-bridges-the-tragic-decline-and-fall-of-porn-star-melissa-hill-part-one-46228/ https://mikesouth.com/porn-stars/bananas-and-burned-bridges-the-tragic-decline-and-fall-of-porn-star-melissa-hill-part-one-46228/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2019 03:38:29 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=46228 From Vivid babe to paranoid shrieking tweaker, there are few bridges that ex-porn star Melissa Hill hasn’t burned. Hopefully there’s someone left in Porn Valley who cares enough about Lorrie to get her help, or leave her to finally hit rock bottom. Part One It’s excruciatingly difficult to watch someone close to you come undone, […]

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India’s attempt to ban PornHub is comically inept and doomed to fail https://mikesouth.com/technology/indias-attempt-to-ban-pornhub-is-comically-inept-and-doomed-to-fail-29964/ https://mikesouth.com/technology/indias-attempt-to-ban-pornhub-is-comically-inept-and-doomed-to-fail-29964/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:28:28 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=29964 India’s new porn ban is absurdly easy to get around Pornhub, the world’s most popular porn site, has come up with a way to circumvent the plan by India’s government plan to block online porn that cut off access to its third biggest market. An order from the Uttarakhand High Court last month instructed all internet service […]

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Author: Legalizing porn in India means women taking control of their bodies https://mikesouth.com/politics/author-legalizing-porn-in-india-means-women-taking-control-of-their-bodies-25979/ https://mikesouth.com/politics/author-legalizing-porn-in-india-means-women-taking-control-of-their-bodies-25979/#respond Mon, 28 May 2018 17:47:55 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=25979 A terrific piece at Quartz by Maria Thomas, featuring an interview with the author of new book, Cybersexy: rethinking pornography, who argues for the legalization of pornography in India. In conservative India, which has tried many times to ban pornographic websites, they’re often viewed as something only men seek out; the desires of straight women or members […]

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Jack Johnson and the modern ‘White Slavery’ panic https://mikesouth.com/race-related/jack-johnson-backpage-and-the-modern-white-slavery-panic-24396/ https://mikesouth.com/race-related/jack-johnson-backpage-and-the-modern-white-slavery-panic-24396/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:49:05 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=24396 After signing into law the keystone legislation of the moral panic over sex trafficking, President Trump considers a posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the first victim of the White Slavery panic from which modern anti-sex campaigns all take their cue. History is more of a tragedy than it is a morality tale. — Christopher Hitchens   Jack Johnson […]

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Naming the Patient at the Center of Porn’s Production Moratorium: Ethical Dilemmas and the Policy of AIDS Exceptionalism https://mikesouth.com/hiv/naming-the-patient-at-the-center-of-porns-production-moratorium-ethical-dilemmas-and-the-policy-of-aids-exceptionalism-24149/ https://mikesouth.com/hiv/naming-the-patient-at-the-center-of-porns-production-moratorium-ethical-dilemmas-and-the-policy-of-aids-exceptionalism-24149/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2018 03:09:43 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=24149 Let me begin by saying that I’m not a public health scholar, and let me add that I am also deeply suspicious and even skeptical of public health as a discipline. As another writer noted here, the immortal H.L. Mencken once wrote that public health (back then called “hygiene”) represented the corruption of medicine by morality. […]

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Victory: Rhode Island anti-porn bill pulled after Elizabeth Smart demands her name be removed https://mikesouth.com/politics/victory-rhode-island-anti-porn-bill-pulled-after-elizabeth-smart-demands-her-name-be-removed-22756/ https://mikesouth.com/politics/victory-rhode-island-anti-porn-bill-pulled-after-elizabeth-smart-demands-her-name-be-removed-22756/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2018 23:22:29 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=22756 We’ve written before about the unconstitutional “porn watching fee” bills that have cropped up in various state legislatures. Some of our favorite lunatics, including Chris Sevier and the fanatics from Morality in Media, are back in the news, as Elizabeth Smart puts the final nail in this ludicrous bill’s coffin.   A proposal that would […]

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Bait and Switch? Or Does Trinity St. Clair & Gregg Dodson’s ‘Porn Companions’ Book Charlie Sheen Ex Brett Rossi? https://mikesouth.com/porn-star-escorts/bait-and-switch-or-does-trinity-st-clair-gregg-dodsons-porn-companions-book-charlie-sheen-ex-brett-rossi-22321/ https://mikesouth.com/porn-star-escorts/bait-and-switch-or-does-trinity-st-clair-gregg-dodsons-porn-companions-book-charlie-sheen-ex-brett-rossi-22321/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:06:22 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=22321 After filing a high-profile civil complaint against her HIV-positive ex, Charlie Sheen, would Crossover Star of the Year nominee Brett Rossi be foolish enough to advertise as an escort on Porn Companions?     Recently, we noticed something peculiar about the home page for Porn Companions, the porn star escort site run by Trinity St. Clair […]

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